Tupiza to Uyuni Salt Flat Tour - Day 3

Our 4-Day Tupiza to Uyuni tour in Bolivia, South America was filled with unique landscapes. We captured snow capped mountains, snow dotted deserts, eroded mountain ranges, glowing lakes and most importantly the largest Salt Flats in the world, Salar de Uyuni.

This album is from day 3 of our tour, which departed from Tupiza (near the Argentina border) in a 4x4 Toyota Landcruiser. Day 3 reveals hundreds of flamingos. Unfortunately we had a very thick overcast the first half of the day, which made the red lake (Laguna Colorada) not so red and the flamingos not so pink. We encountered many different types of rock formations across the Siloli Desert. Some were eroded to the point that they looked like trees (Arbol de Piedra). Others were still porous and sharp, but dotted the desert in the most peculiar places, obviously from a massive explosion many years ago.

Our camera lens had become broken during this tour and wouldn't focus properly. You will notice a loss of sharpness in many of the photos. Our SLR Canon also didn't have a telephoto lens, so the closeup flamingo pictures were taken with our Canon Camcorder, which has an extremely powerful zoom, but has terrible picture quality. We enhanced them as best we could with some digital editing.